"UFOLOGISTS" CONVERGE ON WEST GERMANY

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FRANKFURT, WEST GERMANY (OCT. 27) UPI - Small creatures from outer space

with long arms, gray skin, pear-shaped heads and a varying number of eyes are

the topic of a four-day international conference on UFOs.

Forty-five ''UFOlogists'' from 20 countries are discussing and evaluating

their findings before an audience of 1,800 people who paid $250 to attend the

conference that ends Sunday.

Entitled ''Dialogue with the Universe,'' the event was organized by Munich

publisher Michael Hesemann, who proudly announced, ''There has never been a

UFO conference of this size in the whole world.''

But two West German UFO organizations accused the conference organizer of

''making a lot of money selling putative scientific findings to gullible

people.''

Nonetheless, Hesemann said his UFO conference aims at ''overcoming just a

little bit the enormous lack of information'' Germans have on

extraterrestrials

and ''finding ways to contact extraterrestrials.''

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